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title: A second wave of Ewe migrants in the late 19th century founded Djakp… — Togo · tree and pragmatics
description: A second wave of Ewe migrants in the late 19th century founded Djakpodji, which gave rise to other settlements. Who acts: second wave, Djakpodji. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Togo» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Togo, sentence 255

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From Wikipedia, [«Togo»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Togo), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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A second wave of Ewe migrants in the late 19th century founded Djakpodji, which gave rise to other settlements.

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**Who acts:** second wave, Djakpodji · **What happens:** found, give, wave · **To what, where:** rise, other settlements, Ewe migrants

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Togo». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (second wave, Djakpodji), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Togo:255
# text = A second wave of Ewe migrants in the late 19th century founded Djakpodji, which gave rise to other settlements.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	amod	_	_
3	wave	wave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	Ewe	ewe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	migrants	migrant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	19th	19th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	11	amod	_	_
11	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
12	founded	found	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	Djakpodji	Djakpodji	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
17	rise	rise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	settlements	settlement	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **found** | past | a second wave of Ewe migrants in the late 19th century |  |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **give** | past | Djakpodji | rise | other settlements |  |  | which *nsubj* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent rise=Theme to settlement=Recipient |
| 3 | **wave** |  |  | Ewe migrants in the late 19th century |  |  |  |  | nom wave «event transitive»: of=patient |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Togo», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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